by John D. Pierce | May 24, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Vincent Harding, who established a Mennonite ministry of justice and reconciliation in Atlanta in the ’60s, and wrote speeches for Martin King Jr., and later a biography titled, Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero (1996, Orbis), died this week....
by John D. Pierce | May 10, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce How is faithfulness defined or measured? Can one’s commitments be counted? If so, which ones? Some churchgoers of a particular generation or two remember the six-point offering envelopes that called one into account for certain actions considered to be...
by John D. Pierce | May 1, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Americans like the idea of having prayer at official public meetings — “as long as the public officials are not favoring some beliefs over others.” Such was the finding of a recent national survey by Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind. In fact,...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Often evangelicals, including many Southern Baptists, have fought the idea of genuine religious liberty during the growing ethnic and religious diversification that has swept across the nation in recent decades. They’ve whined about being here first and...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 14, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Whenever the Boynton Baptist Church youth group of my generation gathered — and we gathered often — Glenda Nichols was there. I don’t recall her (or any other adult who engaged with our fun, close group) being called a chaperone. Glenda was simply an...
